Reduced-order observer-based control design for nonlinear stochastic systems

This paper presents a novel method for designing an adaptive control system using radial basis function neural network. The method is capable of dealing with nonlinear stochastic systems in strict-feedback form with any unknown dynamics. The proposed neural network allows the method not only to approximate any unknown dynamic of stochastic nonlinear systems, but also to compensate actuator nonlinearity. By employing dynamic surface control method, a common problem that intrinsically exists in the back-stepping design, called “explosion of complexity”, is resolved. The proposed method is applied to the control systems comprising various types of the actuator nonlinearities such as Prandtl–Ishlinskii (PI) hysteresis, and dead-zone nonlinearity. The performance of the proposed method is compared to two different baseline methods: a direct form of backstepping method, and an adaptation of the proposed method, named APIC-DSC, in which the neural network is not contributed in compensating the actuator nonlinearity. It is observed that the proposed method improves the failure-free tracking performance in terms of the Integrated Mean Square Error (IMSE) by 25%/11% as compared to the backstepping/APIC-DSC method. This depression in IMSE is further improved by 76%/38% and 32%/49%, when it comes with the actuator nonlinearity of PI hysteresis and dead-zone, respectively. The proposed method also demands shorter adaptation period compared with the baseline methods.

This paper mainly focuses on output feedback practical tracking controller design for stochastic nonlinear systems with polynomial function growth conditions. Mostly, there are some studies on output feedback tracking control problem for general nonlinear systems with parametric certainty in existing achievements. Moreover, we extend it to stochastic nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty and system nonlinear terms are assumed to satisfy polynomial function growth conditions which are more relaxed than linear growth conditions or power growth conditions. Due to the presence of unknown parametric uncertainty, an output feedback practical tracking controller with dynamically updated gains is constructed explicitly so that all the states of the closed-loop systems are globally bounded and the tracking error belongs to arbitrarily small interval after some positive finite time. An example illustrates the efficiency of the theoretical results.

In this paper, by incorporating this dynamic structure control technique into a neural network based adaptive control design framework, we have developed a backstepping based control design for a class of nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form with arbitrary uncertainty. Our development is able to eliminate the problem of explosion of complexity inherent in the existing method. Taking the neural network as a model of the system, control signals are directly obtained by minimizing the cumulative differences between a setpoint and output of the model. The applicability in nonlinear system is demonstrated by simulation experiments.

Finite-time stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form

A global state feedback output regulating control for uncertain systems in strict feedback form

This paper investigates adaptive fuzzy output feedback fault-tolerant optimal control problem for a class of single-input and single-output nonlinear systems in strict feedback form. The considered nonlinear systems contain unknown nonaffine nonlinear faults and unmeasured states. Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate cost function and unknown nonlinear functions, respectively. It is assumed that the states of the systems to be controlled are unmeasurable, thus an adaptive state observer is developed. To solve the nonaffine nonlinear fault control design problem, filtered signals are introduced into the adaptive backstepping control design procedures, and in the framework of adaptive critic technique and fault-tolerant control technique, a novel adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant optimal control scheme is developed. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved by using Lyapunov stability theory. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

This note is devoted to study the stabilization problem of stochastic nonlinear delay systems with exogenous disturbances and the event-triggered feedback control. By introducing the notation of input-to-state practical stability and an event-triggered strategy, we establish the input-to-state practically exponential mean-square stability of the suggested system. Moreover, we investigate the stabilization result by designing the feedback gain matrix and the event-triggered feedback controller, which is expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Also, the lower bounds of interexecution times by the proposed event-triggered control method are obtained. Finally, an example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with a large number of results for discrete-time stochastic systems, only a few results have appeared on the event-triggered control for continuous-time stochastic systems. In particular, there have been no published papers on the event-triggered control for continuous-time stochastic delay systems. This note is a first try to fill the gap on the topic.

In this paper, the problem of adaptive fuzzy decentralized optimal control is investigated for a class of nonlinear large-scale systems in strict-feedback form. The considered nonlinear large-scale systems contain the unknown nonlinear functions and unmeasured states. By utilizing the fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions and cost functions, a fuzzy state observer is established to estimate the unmeasured states. The control design is divided into two phases. First, by using the state observer and the backstepping design technique, a feedforward decentralized controller with parameters adaptive laws is designed, by which the original controlled strict-feedback nonlinear large-scale system is transformed into an equivalent affine nonlinear large-scale system. Second, by using adaptive dynamic programming theory, a feedback decentralized optimal controller is developed for the equivalent affine nonlinear system. The whole adaptive fuzzy decentralized optimal control scheme consists of a feedforward decentralized controller and a feedback decentralized optimal controller. It is shown that the proposed adaptive fuzzy decentralized optimal control approach can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded, and the tracking errors converge to a small neighborhood of zero. In addition, the proposed control approach can guarantee that the cost functions are minimized. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.

Adaptive fuzzy tracking controller design is addressed for a class of uncertain nonlinear system in strict-feedback form. The system dynamics are unknown, and external disturbances satisfy triangular bounds. We utilize Tagaki-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy logic system to approximate the unknown system functions. The proposed scheme can guarantee the ultimate uniform boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop system. Compensated tracking errors are employed to construct Lyapunov candidate function. The proposed design circumvents the repeated differential of virtual control law, which renders the controller structures simple and easy to implement. Simulation researches are carried out. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and usage of the proposed design.

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ABSTRACTThis paper presents a solution to the optimal control problem for discrete-time stochastic nonlinear polynomial systems confused with white Poisson noises subject to a quadratic criterion. The solution is obtained in the following way: a nonlinear optimal controller is first developed for polynomial systems, considering the state vector completely available for control design. Then, based on the solution of the state estimation problem for polynomial systems with white Poisson noises, the state estimate vector is used in the control law to obtain a closed-form solution. Performance of this controller is compared to that of the controller employing the extended Kalman filter and the linear-quadratic regulator and the controller designed for polynomial systems confused with white Gaussian noises.

This work concentrates on the adaptive resilient dynamic surface controller design problem for uncertain nonlinear lower triangular stochastic cyber-physical systems (CPSs) subject to unknown deception attacks based on a switching threshold event-triggered mechanism. The adverse effect of deception attacks on the stochastic CPSs is that the exact system state variables become unavailable. Furthermore, it should be emphasized that the coexistence of unknown nonlinearities, stochastic perturbations, and unknown sensor and actuator attacks makes it a very difficult and challenging event to implement the control design. To get the desired controller, radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (NNs) are introduced so that the design obstacle caused from the unknown nonlinearities can be easily solved. On this basis, in order to save resources and effectively transmit, the event-triggered control scheme based on a switching threshold strategy is further considered. In the backstepping design process, the dynamic surface control (DSC) technique is presented to deal with the issue of "explosion of complexity." By skillfully designing a new coordinate transformation and the attack compensators, the problem of unknown deception attacks is successfully handled. Under our proposed control scheme, all the closed-loop signals are bounded in probability and the stabilization errors converge to an adjustable neighborhood of the origin in probability. Finally, the simulation results on the double chemical reactor show the validity of the proposed design scheme.

This paper presents an optimal feedback tracking controller for a class of Itô stochastic nonlinear systems, the design of which involves recasting a nonlinear system equation into a convex combination of multiple non-unique State-Dependent Coefficient (SDC) models. Its feedback gain and controller parameters are found by solving a convex optimization problem to minimize an upper bound of the steady-state tracking error. Multiple SDC parametrizations are utilized to provide a design flexibility to mitigate the effects of stochastic noise and to ensure that the system is controllable. Incremental stability of this controller is studied using stochastic contraction analysis and it is proven that the controlled trajectory exponentially converges to the desired trajectory with a non-vanishing error due to the linear matrix inequality state-dependent algebraic Riccati equation constraint. A discrete-time version of stochastic contraction analysis with respect to a state- and time-dependent metric is also presented in this paper. A simulation is performed to show the superiority of the proposed optimal feedback controller compared to a known exponentially-stabilizing nonlinear controller and a PID controller.

This paper considers the reduced-order observer design problem for one-sided Lipschitz nonlinear systems with unknown inputs. The systems under consideration are a larger class of nonlinear systems than the well-studied Lipschitz systems and have inherent advantages with respect to conservativeness. For such systems, we propose a reduced-order unknown input observer (UIO) by using the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of the reduced-order UIO are established and transformed into the format of LMIs via using the matrix generalized inverse technique. Simulation results are finally given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design.

In this paper, output feedback direct adaptive robust NN control is investigated for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems in strict-feedback form. To construct output feedback control, the original strict-feedback system is transformed into a cascade form, which the output feedback of the nonlinear discrete-time system can be carried out. Then with employment of the inputs and outputs, the output feedback direct adaptive robust NN control is developed. The HONNs is exploited to approximate unknown function, and a stable adaptive NN controller is synthesized. The proposed algorithm improves the rubostness of the discrete-time nonlinear systems. It is proven that all the signals in closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB). A simulation example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Keywordsoutput feedbackrubostnessdirect adaptive NN controldiscrete-time nonlinear system